Marijuana Advocates to Celebrate ‘4/20’ in Downtown Windsor

Marijuana advocates John-Paul Patterson (left), Joshua Jacquot (centre) and Adam Allard (right) hold up promotional materials for the 420 Festival to be held in Windsor on April 20, 2017.

As word continues to grow of the federal government moving toward full legalization of marijuana, local potheads are preparing to celebrate their day of days — April 20 — right in the heart of downtown Windsor.

“But the whole point is not just smoking weed — even though it is our day. It’s about hunger in Windsor.”

All attendees are being asked to bring a canned food donation for local food banks. All event proceeds will also be going to the food banks. “We are doing something good with this,” Jacquot promised.

Attendees must be at least 18 years old.

According to Lucier, next week’s festival will be the first time the City of Windsor has given a permit for such an event, and he doesn’t know of any other municipality in North America to do that — except San Francisco.